Tamari of Georgia

Tamari "the Great" of Georgia (1166-18 January 1213) was the Queen of Georgia from 27 March 1184 to 18 January 1213, succeeding Giorgi III of Georgia and preceding Giorgi IV of Georgia.

Biography
Tamari was born in 1166, the daughter of Giorgi III of Georgia and Burudukan Huddanychyzg. In 1178 she was declared as the co-ruler of the Kingdom of Georgia with her father, and when she came to power as sole regent in 1184 on her father's death, she neutralized any resistance. The decline of the Sultanate of Rum helped her to consolidate a strong Caucasian empire, and she defeated her husband Yury Bogolyubsky after he attempted to oust her in a coup. She remarried to the Alan prince David Soslan in 1191, but he died in 1207, leaving her as the sole leader of Georgia again. She died in 1213.